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Harlem
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We have torn down the worst slums. The natural meeting-points for the lumpenproletariat have been eliminated, converted into pleasant, dull, clean blocks for dull, clean, adapted families. In the absence of ghettos for the losers, they gather around the centres of pride. If Harlem and its equivalents did not exist, they would gather outside the Rockefeller Center.
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― Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy
― Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy
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And he looked at her, full of gratitude and a sudden, wild conjecture: he had been real for her, she had watched him, and prayed for him during all those years when she, for him had been nothing but a shadow. And she was praying for him still; he would have her prayers to aid him all his life long--he saw this, now, in her face. She said nothing, and she did not smile, only looked at him with her grave kindness, now a little questioning, a little shy.
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― Go Tell It on the Mountain
― Go Tell It on the Mountain
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